Word: spending
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...These readings being continued through four years, with change of books or plays in each year, will give a tolerably complete survey of the works of the great authors. Professor Paine will give illustrations of the great composers throughout the year. We said above that many-graduates wished to spend a term of study abroad; but, on looking at the embarras de richesses which is offered below, we think that our government, while granting graduates the liberty, may have taken away the desire. The circular mentioned above may be obtained by present Seniors at the Secretary's office...
...pounds a year, and enough money was thus obtained to meet the ordinary expenses of the club and pay five hundred pounds for mortgages, leaving a balance of three hundred pounds on hand. Our expenses need not be so great, for we should have no mortgages and would not spend so much at first for books and salaries. I hope that this scheme, which has been so hastily and imperfectly described, will not seem visionary. A few earnest and energetic supporters would be able to put it into operation without much difficulty...
THOUGH a man spend all his summer vacation in roaming through the fields and woods of this broad land; though he pore for days over the pages of Cassell and peer deep into the works of Cuvier; though he even join the Harvard Natural History Society and listen to the learned discourses of that august body, - though he do any or all of these, the chances are ten to one he will never once meet with that strange creature, the literary butterfly. Yet it is not a rara avis of which I speak; nor do I tell quaint fables...
...during the summer vacations. We should suppose that any such arrangement should be made with Blakey, for he only undertakes to furnish boats during term-time, and he would, of course, be responsible for the return of the boats in September in proper repair. There are probably many who spend their vacations in some place with favorable opportunities for rowing, which they cannot make use of because there are no good boats. If the clubs choose to take the matter into their own hands, it would increase their revenues as well as accommodate their members...
...return of spring, or rather of the first phenomenon which admonishes us of its approach, - early prayers, - brings with it, to the closely confined student, the temptation and the opportunity to break loose from his hibernal retirement, and to spend at least some portion of his existence in fresh air and sunlight...